BEWARE OF EXCITEMENT THAT LEADS TO FORGETFULNESS

Just as the cry of my first baby hit the room, my heart took a deep breath of relief. The labour had lasted hours and birth procedures has taken its own extra time. Irewamiri had really tried. Minutes later, they brought out my daughter and I was super excited seeing her for the first time. But I looked at the […]

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NEVER GET OFFENDED WHEN PROMISES ARE MADE BUT NOT KEPT

As a young student, the Lord began to open doors for me in ministry. An uncle of mine heard about what God did through my friends and me in a meeting and he was excited. He asked how we made it to the meeting, I informed him that we hired a cab. He promised that he would sponsor our next […]

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FAVOUR CAN “DISORGANIZE” YOUR PLAN

After my service year, I planned to take a three weeks break. It was meant to be a vacation trip outside the country. Everything was going on as planned when one morning, the Lord said to me, “Johannesburg. No! Go to where I have sent you”. It was hard to explain to everyone who was supporting the process and was […]

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STOP INTERRUPTING DIVINE PROCESS WITH HUMAN IMPATIENCE

My second daughter would at times wake up at night and request to take a meal or just water. Oftentimes than not, she would retire into our bed. If you ask her to go to their room, she would disagree. What we get to do most times is to carry her right after she has slept off. Once she is […]

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STAY IN JOY NO MATTER WHAT

It was some few days to our convention some years ago. We had a budget of about 120 thousand naira. That was not to be a lot of money but for us then, it was quite a huge sum. We kept on planning and the account was not in agreement with us. Every day that season as the convention drew […]

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YOU WILL GET BETTER FOR CHEAPER!

Right after our wedding reception, we planned already that we would not leave Lagos that day. We planned to spend the night on the Island. One of my beloved ones had gone ahead to book a room for us at a hotel that had the lagoon front as a view. We loved it when we got in but we requested […]

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO HOLD BACK CAN ACTUALLY BE DYING?

In childhood days, we had great times hunting birds, plucking cashews and mangoes and riding bicycles. One of those days, Kayode had caught a bird and Ayodele and I were with him. We needed a place to keep our new captive so we placed it in a case in the corridor of Kayode’s house. We went out to play for […]

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OBEY EVERY PROMPT OF THE LORD EVEN WHEN YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND

After the filling of the foundation and the concrete flooring in the church project, it was such a delight to take some of the church members to the site after our Sunday service. After we had prayed, the Lord instructed that one person hold on to the iron rods that will eventually become the pillars. The Lord asked that we […]

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DO NOT HELP THE BURGLAR

As I stood in front of our house some time ago, I noticed that there was an old cutlass close by. It was a very strong one. I told the person with me that “Kindly keep the cutlass away from the entrance”. He wanted some explanation and I said to him, “It would be inappropriate to supply a burglar the […]

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